The question – who are you? or what’s your name? to more accurately match Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – as I’ve mentioned in a previous post – is most likely a question that does not involve an answer of I or me. We are legion.

Specifically, I’ve had many occasions – a few times a year – done something and have no idea why I did that specific activity. Once when I was young and still living in the Bronx, NY, – I was walking with my mother and I tore ass across the street. Miraculously, I was unharmed. But I still have no clue to this day why I did that.

Usually, it is something small and non-life-threatening. Frequently, though, I’ve done things with no reason at all – almost like I had clairvoyance – just for up to 3 seconds ahead – and avoided car accidents – with witnesses (all family) in the car. I have no real idea what happened in those instances – or the instances where I say something someone else had in mind, or the instances when I seem to “know” that someone is nearby.

I don’t subscribe to any supernatural theories. I strongly suspect there is no such thing as ESP.

However; what if, as a legion of different parts and perhaps even different minds, part of me knew – based on evidence – that cars were going to swerve in to my lane, a sentence someone i you like is about to say, or that someone I know is nearby.

Such as knowledge or capability would be hard to test and would most certainly fail ESP tests; however, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, or that it isn’t an ability.

It just means that even inside our own bodies and our own heads – we are not alone.

Now, apply this information to simulation of human minds. Codops will be really interesting technology and really interesting people. It also makes you wonder just a little bit of how much of the human mind will need to be simulated to simulate the mind? How much of who we are is a result of biofeedback from parts of the body other than the head?